Chapter 968: Reparations
The days at the border are hard, but they are also fulfilling, as long as you don't want to rest, you can be busy without touching the ground.
It's completely different from the boring concoction of ointment in Zhenbei Wangfu to pass the time.
Although he was a little tired, Su Jin felt that it was worth it.
Fighting at the border passes, sometimes for three or four days at a time, and the city was still under siege in the middle of the night, and the sudden trumpet in the army surprised people from their sleep, and sometimes they rested for five or six days.
Although Su Jin was at the border, except for being captured on the day she came, she could only see the war from the soldiers at other times, she had never been to the city tower, she had never seen the fierceness of the battle between the two armies, and she was not allowed to do anything dangerous from Dongxiang Hou and the old prince, and down to Xing'er and Xuelan.
Dongxiang Hou didn't let Su Jin be too busy, for fear that she would be tired and gas, but the military doctor asked her for a safe pulse every day.
The military doctor said it was okay, and Dongxiang Hou left it to her.
Let's talk about the Tongzhou Mansion, before Su Jin took a detour from the Tongzhou Mansion by boat, and accidentally discovered the conspiracy of the grain and grass to be burned, and after arriving in Yuzhou, he hurriedly sent a letter to the imperial court.
Chong Lao Guogong wanted to go to the Tongzhou capital to check the grain and grass, but the emperor did not agree.
The king of Nan'an was in charge of the weapons superintendent, and he couldn't get out, so he handed it over to the lord of the Dingguo Mansion.
The eldest lord of the Dingguo Mansion went to do this, and Chonglao Guogong was relieved, he was a trustworthy person.
But this time the grain and grass were burned, and the thing was done without leakage, and no one knew if King Qi and Chongguo Gong were in the same state.
The lord of the Dingguo Mansion went, and the old man was not at ease.
Chong Lao Guogong is stubborn, and the emperor can only rely on him.
There were still 30,000 soldiers and horses in Kyoto, and the emperor asked Chonglao Guogong to take 10,000 to Tongzhou, but Chonglao Guogong did not agree.
Chonglao Guogong only brought 300 soldiers, made a detour to transfer 3,000 soldiers and horses, and then went to Tongzhou.
When he arrived in Tongzhou, Chonglao Guogong had a headache.
In order to transport grain and grass, the Tongzhou government requisitioned more than a dozen civilian ships and burned them clean, and those merchants wanted the government to pay money.
Every day I came to the yamen to make trouble, the gate of the Tongzhou Mansion was closed, and the Qian Governor's Mansion did not dare to show up at all.
As soon as Chonglao Guogong arrived in the Tongzhou capital, not to mention the case of the burning of grain and grass, he was directly blocked by those businessmen who were kneeling on the ground.
The merchants who had damaged their ships begged the old man to sympathize with them and compensate them for the loss of their ships.
It is reasonable that the imperial court should compensate them, but a ship is worth a lot of money, the treasury is empty, and the border is at war.
promised in public that the court would not be able to allocate money at that time, which was his dishonesty.
Chong Lao Guogong advanced to the Tongzhou Mansion, and the Qian Governor's Mansion had already fallen ill with the noise, and it was unknown whether this was a real illness or a fake illness.
Knowing that the old man was coming, the Qian prefect struggled to get up from the sickbed and said, "The grain and grass have been burned, why did the old man come to our Tongzhou Mansion?" ”
Chong Lao Guogong looked at him and said, "What does the Qian Governor plan to do about those businessmen?" ”
Qian Zhifu had a headache and said, "The grain and grass were burned, and the emperor was angry, at this time, I said that those ships were burned, and everyone had to compensate, which is undoubtedly ...... adding to the snow." ”
"I'm also having a headache about this, and I'm sick in a hurry, and I haven't come up with a way to get the best of both worlds."
If it weren't for the fact that he knew that it was not grain and grass that was burned, Chonglao Guogong would have really been moved by the urgency of the emperor of the Qian Governor's Mansion.
When the prefect Qian asked Chonglao Guogong again what was the matter with the Tongzhou Mansion, Chonglaoguo said fairly, "The grain and grass have been burned, and the border pass is urging grain and grass, so I will come to the same state government to transfer another batch of grain and grass to the border pass." ”
Qian Zhifu was stunned, and hurriedly said that there was no more grain and grass in the Tongzhou Mansion.
Chong Lao Guogong didn't say anything, only said that he would first go to the granary of Tongzhou Capital to see how much grain was still in stock, and then decide how much to transfer to the border pass.
Governor Qian wanted to accompany him, but Chonglao Guogong didn't let him.
Chong Lao Guogong wanted to take the prefect by surprise, but when he really went to the granary, he saw that there was grain in the granary, but it was not much, and it could not reach the number that was burned.
The imperial court transferred grain and grass from the state capitals, and it was impossible not to leave a little for people, in case of some natural and man-made disasters, and when the imperial court allocated grain and grass to relief, the daylilies were cold.
Although he knew that there was a problem with the state government, there was no conclusive evidence to catch the traitor and catch the thief, and the old man could not help the Qian prefect.
He also believed that so much grain and grass was transported from the same state capital, and it was impossible for no one to know.
Chong Lao Guogong temporarily lived in the same state capital to be verified.
Chong Lao Guogong stayed in the Tongzhou Mansion for a day, and the Qian Governor's Mansion slept and ate for a day, and he had to be carefully served, not daring to slack off.
In order to let Chonglao Guogong leave early, Qian Zhifu secretly instigated those businessmen, let them block the place where Chonglao Guogong was staying, and knelt down to beg Chonglao Guogong to let the court compensate their ship.
This is a tricky matter, and no one wants to take care of it, especially for Chong Lao Guogong, which is not his business.
No matter how fierce the trouble is, Chong Lao Guogong didn't leave, and he really settled those businessmen.
It is impossible to let the court compensate them for the ship now, give them the IOU, and those merchants dare not accept it, especially now that the situation is turbulent, who can guarantee that the court will not be overthrown?
Once the court is changed, who will collect the account of this IOU?
The people don't fight with the officials, they ask the court for money, and if they don't keep it, they will put their lives into it.
Knowing that it was impossible, Chong Lao Guogong didn't mention it.
He gathered all the merchants together and asked them to write down the value of their ships, write one for themselves, and estimate one for each other.
Chong Lao Guogong set the value of those boats, impartially, fair and just.
If the family can afford such a big boat, it must be a wealthy family, and the family has an indispensable field shop.
If you have land, you have to pay taxes, and Chonglao Guogong made a decision on behalf of the imperial court, allowing them to use the loss of the ship to offset the tax, when to pay the tax, and when to pay the tax like everyone else.
A businessman calculated, "It's going to take ten years." ”
Chong Lao Guogong glanced at him and said, "You don't agree with such a solution?" ”
The merchant was dumbfounded.
Although this is not what they want, ask yourself if this may be the best solution.
It is impossible to ask the imperial court to compensate them for their ship.
This matter has nothing to do with Chonglao Guogongben, the boat borrowed by the Qian Governor's Mansion had an accident, and he became a turtle with a shrunken head, pretending to be sick and not seeing them.
Now it's hard to have someone who comes out to take care of things, if they are so picky and Chong Lao Guogong leaves directly, their losses will be in vain.
Although he was dissatisfied, he endured it and took the letter of commitment stamped by the government and left.
The matter of the burned boat was temporarily resolved, and there seemed to be no need for Chonglao Guogong to stay, and Qian Zhifu knocked on the side to ask when Chonglao Guogong would leave.
It was Governor Qian's question that made Chonglao Guogong suspicious.
There was no grain and grass in the granary of the Tongzhou Mansion, and he could not find conclusive evidence that the burning of grain and grass was a conspiracy, and he stayed to pose no threat to the Qian Governor's Mansion.
On the contrary, he is the old man, and a little prefect is not in a hurry to scold him, but can't wait to let him leave.
This is clearly problematic.
Chong Lao Guogong patiently lived in the Tongzhou Mansion, secretly sent people to investigate, but could not find clues, and in desperation, he tied up the master of the Qian Governor's Mansion for interrogation.
As soon as Chong Lao Guogong said that the ship was not carrying grain and grass, but stones and sand, the master was so frightened that he shot at the target.
Originally, when Chonglao Guogong came to Tongzhou, they were uneasy, and he never left, and he still knew about the stone......
Chong Lao Guogong gave him a chance to confess and be lenient, but the master refused to say at first, but after the secret guard knife was on his neck, the master recruited everything.
At that time, it was true that the ships were not carrying grain and grass, but stones and sand.
The grain and grass are not in the granary, and they have already been transported out little by little by the Qian prefect.
The prefect of Qian is the person of the king of Qi, and the grain and grass are prepared for the king of Qi to rebel, and they are placed in the granary, and no one knows when the prefect of Qian will be transferred, and the grain will be transferred out secretly and placed on the Zhuangzi.
The grain and grass of the two great Zhuangzi, but these are not counted.
After asking, I learned that the Qian Governor's Mansion was not so loyal to King Qi, and some of the grain transported from the granary was secretly sold by the Qian Governor's Mansion, and it was exchanged for silver taels and fell into his pocket.
A master testified that Chonglao Guogong led people to surround the Qian Mansion, arrested the Qian Governor's Mansion, and all the cadres of the Qian Mansion were imprisoned, and all the family property was confiscated.
There are also merchants who are in cahoots with the state government and the Qian prefect's mansion, especially those who help sell grain, and Chonglao Guogong did not let go.
The grain of the two Zhuangzi, Chonglao Guogong let people transport it to the border.
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